The role Superman has played in my life, art and career, from childhood sketches to adult illustrations and comic art history works—on my Wednesday night GOOGLE HANGOUT May 28, 2014 at 8pm EST—thanx to my friends at Midnight Media Capture (www.midnightmediacapture.com)!

Join me in COSTUME at my art show at 6pm EST as NYC's Art on A Gallery (24 Avenue A, www.artonagallery.com) throws a comic book-themed double-Gemini-birthday COSTUME party (Gallery Curator/Manager's Grace Perez's on May 28 and mine on June 6)!

On the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of Batman's first published appearance in May 1939, I discuss the behind-the-scenes origin of the character, with specific attention paid to the unsung co-creator role of Kane's writer and partner, Bill Finger. This logo image is based on Kane's first "Bat-Man" sketch that he showed to Finger before Finger made all the suggestions that "...made Batman, Batman"!

Michael Dooley is an editor for the online version of PRINT magazine, the trade magazine of graphic design, and teaches Design & The History of Design at Arts Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; he just Facebooked this post:

"Arlen's 'Life and Art' presentation was an entertaining, informative, enjoyable success. If you missed his live appearance/broadcast, which just ended, you can enjoy it in 'unreal time' here..."

Supplemental to my Art on A Gallery exhibition running May 1-June 5, 2014, I'll be presenting a series of lectures in the gallery each Thursday evening at 6:00pm that give background and context to my exhibited works:

May 8, 2014: "Life, Art and Comic Book Art": A retrospective overview of my twin careers as comic book-style illustrator and comic book art historian!

My thanks to friends Dan Greenfield and Cliff Galbraith for this great piece featured on their great pop culture site, 13th Dimension: "Comics historian Arlen Schumer his first one-man gallery show in NYC, featuring weekly lectures. Here’s the first part of a two-part MIGHTY Q&A about comics, his career and how his show came to be!"